That’s what they tell you. What you find is something completely different.
I remember watching Cabaret1, when I was 16 or something like that, and feeling absolutely euphoric, when I was exiting the movie theater. The movie itself elevates amorality to being good, because it’s better than evil. It is a diabolical agent promoting moral relativism, but I was too young to realize that immediately. The last song by Liza Minnelli encourages viewers to relax and believe that “life is a cabaret”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXRQV5z9GL8
To my luck, which can also be called a blessing, the store next to the exit on the mall was a toy store with a window display. I’ll never forget the little boy, looking at the toys in the shop-window. He was about 12, in a wheelchair, and he was mesmerized, his eyes gleaming with admiration and he was pointing his finger to something mysterious in the display, as if it would be the one thing to remove him from the wheelchair turn him into an able human being again. He looked trans-substantiated. At that moment, I realized that, as opposed to what the last song insert in the movie pushes on the viewer, life is not a cabaret, “old chum.”
Not-so-strangely, recent statistics of teen pregnancy became more favorable. The reason? Contraceptives became available for teens, along with condoms being distributed at US public schools. Public schooling also dumbs down girls, because they are usually several years ahead of boys in personal development, but they want to be “liked” by boys (whatever that means), so they fall back in academics in order to become even dumber than boys. Moreover, public schooling brings men and women of the same age together, which is a terrible idea most of the time.
In movies in the last several decades, men and women get sexually involved only a few minutes into their encounter, which might require a good stomach even to watch (actors and actresses have been definitely complaining about the practice).
The breakup of the family became fully ensured by the introduction of contraceptives (it empowered women against men2 and turned them into regular tax donkeys in the work force) and rulings favoring women in family court. All these prevent personal responsibility from kicking in. "Celebrities," for one, tend to marry several times over, probably because a divorce settlement brings in more than whatever the relationship was ever worth. Dating sites3 are also full of females looking for a "sugar daddy" and males aiming at ripping off lonely women...
Of course, “doctors” don’t tell women that most forms of contraceptives mess with the hormonal balance and many females get out of the circle only after they gained enough weight to lose appeal and, perhaps even worse, a disproportionately large percentage of them turn lesbian after an abortion… The danger of becoming pregnant is gone, and they still have a "mate."
“Doctors” and “psychiatrists” don’t tell women about the potential harms of an abortion or about the fact that personal responsibility, along with personal integrity, is gone with “the pill” and its counterparts. Without taking responsibility for each other’s well-being, marriages cannot last4. Nobody should make love without being open to marriage, but in the last few decades, even the idea of marriage has been turned into a jest.
At this point, enter the protectors of life, who have been turning a blind eye to the conditioning by the media, but still want the debilitated and drug-dependent offspring that are otherwise aborted to survive. Still, I’m not sure if they would be willing to adopt such children, with some of whom inheriting enough bad traits to kill their foster parents after they grow strong enough. How many of these warriors would5 support an orphanage, while knowing that only a few of the inmates will make it sane and sound after growing up there?
Am I advocating for abortion? Certainly not.
I am advocating for instilling personal responsibility into people at a young age. Instead, even teenagers are called “kids” who are supposed to be unable to fend for themselves, while grade schools stop grading students and US high schools are graduating illiterate students who hardly ever show up at class.
I am advocating for the public to reject pop culture in which women are treated as objects and subjects for fun or, occasionally, both men and women are presented in destructive co-dependent relationships, elevating emotions for those who choose to be “romantic” (you are co-dependent, if your self-image depends on what someone else thinks about you).
I am advocating for people to realize that life is not a cabaret, but they are players and must take responsibility for their actions even at a young age.
I am saying that pissing on a house fire after the house is all ashes doesn’t accomplish a thing even if such firemen are posing as heroes, protecting life.
I am saying that the abortion debate is a red herring, diverting people’s attention from the fact that they are being killed right now.
Combatant feminism was only icing on the cake.
In the last few years, I’ve been faking free subscriptions at a few dating sites in order to find out about current trends. Some of these places even employ fake “matches” in order to keep you as a client… Fake matches praise you and conduct dialogues, but they either disapper or ask for money to meet you. :)
Last August, I initiated a discussion on the ideal age difference in marriage:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/what-is-the-ideal-age-difference
After posting the details of this article on https://www.lifesitenews.com a few years ago, I earned to be banned forever. :)
err... Nazis purported to represent "the people" and social improvements (at the expense of "some" people) did show initial benefits--but Hitler was funded by the bankers who got po'd when he went "too far" with their do-re-mi an' didn't foller orders! (SO they gave HIM his marchin' orders! AND of course Ameri-CONS got conned / killed to save the bankers' invest-mints--horrible) Another story fer another time, of course. That said, yes there were indeed death camps (ok to disagree on this one but there is plenty of documentation of this...) an' no it wasn't a hoax, yes there were labor camps that turned deadly, yes there were "show camps" to impress select journalist an' mask what was up there, yes the labor camps existed and were not the same as the death camps, yes, many died under the (dreadful deadful watch of the allies post-war--Patton was ruthless!) so there IS way more to the entire story--but I won't argue with ya t'day--it's a long wade in the weeds an' we're all "bizzy"--all that said, the "party before The Fall" is really what Cabaret is about--a doom-ahead! warnin' an' as Camille Paglia sez, when tranny stuff an' decadence peak, society falls. She tracks it--it's purdy consistent.
THUS with this comment ya made, I agree then! : "Cabaret is reflecting today's world quite accurately, although the players are different now."
Hint--some'a the same players! (same famblies... same bloodlines... )
Agree with ya Ray all 'bout the dis-inta-gray-shun of the fambly an' the (purposeful!) cheapenin' of marriage, the dumbin' down've kids, etc! Feminism was mostly a Rockyfeller/CIA "joint" (tho' in some senses it did good cuz the "women shouldn't worry their purdy lil' heads" stuff was just gawd-awful an' NEEDED ta be opposed...) ... Rockefellers' (an' boyz they wuz...) wanted more lady consumers an' on the tax rolls (so more money would be comin' in ta steal!!!), CIA part've the plot to break up famlies, undermine what keep folks an' the danged country together!
NOW... in the midst of ALL THAT came Cabaret... it's a VERY adult film (seein' it at 16? wow!)--but it happens to be (imo) a great musical (Kander & Ebb!) an' a very-"gut" movie about DECADENCE (it's "old chum" by the way!) an' DEATH. It's exceedin'ly dark an' is not at all about "celebratin' " the wild an' wooly lives of the protagonists!
The film is about innocence lost, about very messed up folks whose outlier lives you DO NOT WANT TO EMULATE (this is made very clear in the film...), an' the downfall of Weimar Society to the Nazis who were even WORSE an' of course more decadent. That film is a twisted Tarantella! (NOT a celebration of the Cabaret livestyle at all!) Sally & friends are RUINED as is Germany... two sides of the same coin... the Nazi show IS a show too (an evil one, of course...) The film is a Tower of Babel tale (look out, it's about ta crasssssh!) an' one I'd say is downright CAUTIONARY...
The Cabaret song is ironic--it's not sayin' that this is a "fun show" so join it; ruther' it's sayin' that in this life there are all sorts of "players" an' many GOT PLAYED (eg. the unfaithful nature of the affairs, shady business deals, spyin', infidelity an' finkin' on "friends" etc... that ALL happen in the show an' is NOT held up as good at all!). So in some ways the "show" magnifies such infidelities, the decadence, the mostly BAD stuff society manifests...holds a mirror up to Rome before the FALL...
So if you see it just as somethin' promotin' "naughty" or careless entertainment (I mean life---an' the show TOO), yer missin' the whole message 'bout theater reflectin' what's go'in on in so-sigh-a-tea which was WHAT pre-sippy-tated the take-over by the SS! VERY dark stuff...
The music an' performances in that moo-sicle are TOPS... but again' it's a cautionary an' ironic tale... an' the Life is a Cabaret message--is more in line with (equally cautionary) All the world's a stage... than applausin' decadence... Indeedy (I won't go inta the back story stuff...) the influences are Brechtian / of strong social criticism.
Today's gawd-awful new moo-sicles have shape-shifted into something REALLY toxic with untuneful numbers--but Cabaret shines as sparklin' beacon 've caution an' pending doom! (It ain't fer the fainthearted OR for 16 year olds tho--golly!) It's a far more mature moo-sicle (in terms of demands made on the audi-ants) an' no doubt some mebbe didn't git it? (not a "rye eye" in the house?! really?)
But mebbe it's worth a revisit... that is if ya like moosicles!
ps not sure if yer a Michael York fan (I sure am!) but the man had a good singin' voice (he toured in Camelot)--but they wouldn't let 'im sing in the movie--STRANGE but true!